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Fitness in Times of Crisis

March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 by richie_neville In UncategorizedTags: Beginners Fitness, Daily Dozen

Fitness in Times of Crisis Fitness in times of crisis is super important. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking a spiritual crisis, an emotional crisis or a global pandemic crisis; keeping physically fit is vital to getting you through it in one piece! Many people in these situations become new fitness recruits, realising for the first time how ill-prepared they are for what’s going on around them. Like any new recruit you really need to undergo a period of basic Read More

Slow Fitness Exercise Routines

February 23, 2020February 26, 2020 by richie_neville In Fitness, Lifestyle, Mental FitnessTags: Health, Physical Culture

Slow fitness is the perfect term for the exercise routines I promote here on Internal Force Fitness. Coupled with ticking all of the boxes for a ‘movement diet‘ I’m delighted that more people are looking to slow things down, but actually do MORE. What is Slow Fitness? As far as I’M concerned slow fitness is moving around just hard enough to get the blood flowing, lubricate the joints, and put them through their full range of motion. In fact, just Read More

Make Every Day a Day of Health

February 2, 2020February 17, 2020 by richie_neville In History, LifestyleTags: Health, Physical Culture

Good health is a rich prize – the joy of life. Go after it! Tumble out of bed, and tune in on the Metropolitan Life Health Exercises. They’ll put vim on your muscles, air in your lungs, set your blood-tingling, put an edge on your appetite, and help keep you at your best. In the interest of its 26,000,000 policyholders, the Metropolitan is making a country-wide fight for the betterment of health. One result is already apparent; since 1911 the Read More

Morning Exercise Routine

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by richie_neville In Fitness, History, LifestyleTags: Fitness, Morning Exercises

A morning exercise routine is something to be embraced, not dreaded or feared! Why then are so many of us unwilling or unable to do something that has proven health benefits, takes so little time to do, and which just makes us FEEL better? After all, chances are you already do that little arm stretch when you first get up in the morning – what do you think your body is trying to tell you?! Depending on where in the Read More

Making Fitness Fun

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 by richie_neville In Fitness, LifestyleTags: Exercise, Fitness, Fun, Keep Fit, Relaxation

Making Fitness Fun Making fitness fun is easy – you just have to start enjoying it! For some people, of course, it is not as simple as that, but that doesn’t mean that fitness can’t BECOME fun by altering how you approach it. Richie, the Internal Force Fitness mascot, has fun when he is exercising. Being a cartoon makes things a lot simpler, however – I literally just have to draw a smile on him, and presto chango = he’s Read More

Day One Fitness

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 by richie_neville In Mental FitnessTags: Beginners Fitness, Simple Bodyweight Exercises, Simple Exercises, Standing Muscles, Standing Straight

Day One Fitness: There will always be debate as to what the most ‘popular’ fitness program is at any one time, but to my mind, there will always be a clear winner: Day One Fitness. I’ll go into this concept a bit more in the text below, but it all starts with the correct mindset! What is Day One Fitness? Day One Fitness is simply that day that people decide to ‘have a go’ at getting fitter. It could be the Read More